Chelsea Lately Interview — “Perv"

Jesse Bering discusses his book "Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us” and his awkward encounter with "Chelsea Lately" staffer Brad Wollack.

Chelsea Lately Interview — "Perv"

Big Think - Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?

Streamed live on Jul 10, 2012

Big Think's Megan Erickson talks with Jesse Bering, a scholar-in-residence at Wells College, a columnist at scientificamerican.com, and contributor to Slate about belief, the evolutionary quirks of the human body, and the larger insights found in biology. Jesse is the author of Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human and The Belief Instinct.

The Big Think - Why Is the Penis Shaped LIke That? And Other Reflections on Being Human [LIVE]

The Young Turks Interview - “Perv"

Published on Oct 24, 2013

Jesse Bering is the author of such books as "Why is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human" and "Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us." He's also written for Scientific American, Slate, Das Magazin (Switzerland), New York Magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic, and has been featured on NPR, the BBC, Playboy Radio.

Through the Wormhole - Did We Invent God?

Originally aired in the US August 8, 2012

Our belief in a God above explains all we can't understand. Where do religious beliefs come from? Some experts believe God may exist only in our brain, that we are wired to worship the supernatural and that faith in a higher power gives us an evolutionary advantage. Is it possible that God is really just a neurological accident? And does that make Him any less real? Did God invent humanity, or did humanity invent God?

Through the Wormhole, Did We Invent God?

NPR - Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous?

Originally aired on August 30, 2010

In the history of the world, every culture in every location at every point in time has developed some supernatural belief system. And believing in God may have been evolutionarily advantageous to humans as it provided a framework for promoting social good.

NPR, All Things Considered, Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous?

How do we, as a society, decide where to draw lines restricting sexual behavior? How do we determine the legal age of consent? Why is polygamy against the law? What about prostitution? Bestiality? Do we legislate these restrictions based on objective factors or do we merely draw arbitrary lines based on subjective and rapidly changing opinions about what is and isn't "moral?"

All this and a debate over the most ethical way to extract sperm from a horse in this segment of "The Point."